Staten Island, NY: While welding inside an empty 7,500 gallon tank used to store vegetable oil for making bio-diesel fuel, a man was killed when the tank exploded at an alternative fuel manufacturing plant.More information

FridayJun 03

McAllen, TX: About 100 gallons of aluminum sulfate was spilled at a water treatment plant.More information

FridayJun 03

Rocky Mount, NC: Firefighters worked to control a fire that destroyed a mattress factory.More information

ThursdayJun 02

RichardsBay, S. Africa: At least nine people were injured when a major ammonia gas leak was discovered a phosphoric acid plant.More information

ThursdayJun 02

Greenbriar County , WV : Two workers were killed when a rig drilling for coalbed methane gas exploded.More information

ThursdayJun 02

Fieldsboro, NJ: Two workers were severely burned when they were accidentally sprayed with sulfuric acid at a chemical plant.More information

ThursdayJun 02

Madison, WI: Hazmat crews worked to clean up lactic acid that leaked from a tanker hauling 5,000 gallons of the chemical on a roadway.More information

ThursdayJun 02

Fewsburg, NY: A fire involving titanium was contained by firefighters at a metal plant.More information

ThursdayJun 02

Eglinton , UK : A man was killed at a water treatment plant when an explosion caused a tank to shoot up into the air.More information

ThursdayJun 02

Johannesburg, S. Africa: Four people were injured when a fire at a flare line caused an explosion at an oil and chemical plant.More information

ThursdayJun 02

Kansas City, KS: Sodium hydroxide fumes caused a small fire to break out at a recycling plant.More information

ThursdayJun 02

Londonderry , Ireland : A man was killed when a blast from a gas tank blew causing the tank to fly through the roof of a water plant.More information

ThursdayJun 02

Defiance, OH: A fire broke out in a processing unit at a plant that manufactures dairy products while the unit was undergoing maintenance work.More information

WednesdayJun 01

Augusta, KY: Hazmat teams responded to a chlorine gas leak that occurred due to a faulty injector in a cylinder valve at a sewage treatment plant.More information

WednesdayJun 01

Schramberg- Sulgen, Germany: About three people were injured when a fire broke out in the galvanizing plant of an electronics factory.More information